Class Differences (External factors)
Class Differences (Internal factors)
Ethnic Differences (External & Internal)
Gender Differences (External & Internal)
Role of Education
100

Two speech codes produced by Bernstein, along with explanations

Elaborate - Middle Class use, which is favorited in school 


Restricted - Working class, frowned upon in school. 

100

How does the self fulfilling prophecy work? 

Labelling -> Treatment of the Pupil accordingly -> internalisation of the label and becomes it. 

100

Who argued that because Black families tend to be lone mother, their children are inadequately provided due to the absence of a male breadwinner

Moynihan 

100

What major changes in the family can impact girls attitudes towards education? 

> Increase in divorce rate

> Increse in cohabitation 

> Lone-parent mothers 

100

Outline 2 functions of Education, according to Functionalist

Durkheim - Social solidarity, speclaist skills 

Parson - acts as a bridge (P vs U values) 

Davis and Mooe - Role Allocation 

200

Education Action Zones and Sure Start are examples of what?

Compensatory Education

200

Sociologists who argued that schools produce W/C underachievement due to labels and teachers assumptions. Normalisation of W/C underachievement 

Dunne and Gazeley 

200

Explain the Wood's et al 'Job applications' study to explain Racism in Wider Society 

3 CV's sent to 1,000 jobs. Ethnic sounding names received less helpful feedback than white sounding. 

200
What equal opportunities polices have been brought in to encourage girls into non-traditional subjects?

GIST & WISE

200

What did the New Right state the role of the state is to do in Education?

> Impose a framework for schools (competition) 

> National Curriculum (shared culture is transmitted)

300

Who stated that cultural deprivation is a myth?

Keddie

300

Explain 'A-C economy' and 'Educational Triage' with reference to sociologists. 

Gillborn & Youdell - Schools focus on those who are C/D grade who may impact the positioning of the league tables and affects their funding. 

300

What did Gillborn and Mirza mean by 'racialised expectations'

Teachers were quicker to discipline black pupils due to pre-determined judgments about challenging to authority 

300

What has globalisation and the decline of manual labour jobs contributed to boys and achievement?

Led to a crisis of masculinity - boys have lost enthusiasm and motivation for future roles that involved labour. 

300

According to Althusser, what is education part of and explain why?

Ideological State Apparatus - reproduces and legitimates class inequality. 

400

Name 3 factors which constitute Material Deprivation 

Housing (Douglas)

Diet & Health (Howard)

Fear of Debt  (Bull)

400
Define Lacey's 'differentiation' and 'Polarisation' in reference to Pupil subcultures. 

Differentiation > Teachers categories students according to ability. Placing students in these may lead them to subcultures 

Polarisation > Pupils respond by moving to one of the 'poles' 

400

Provide 1 example of ethnic minorities rejected their labelling given by teachers

Fuller - Black girls in London comprehension 

Mac and Ghaill - Black/Asian A Level students did not follow through their labels.

400

What phrase is given to tasks/activities which are seen as 'territory' for girls and boys which impacts their self-esteem?

Gender domains

400

Whose study can be used to show that working class can resist attempts of education to indoctrinate them? 

Paul Willis - Learning to Labour (anti-school, didn't respect rules, however destined for working-class jobs)

500

Sullivan tested Bourdieu's ideas, what did she find?

Complex fiction and watched TV docs developed good capital. Children of graduates also did well. Cultural capital is only part of the issue. 

500
Elaborate on Archer's 'Nike' Identities

W/C choose the brand as a self of identity. M/C discard it, along with the school, further marginalisation W/C. 

500

Provide 2 examples of institutional racism that can impact Ethnic Differences in Achievement 

Critical Race Theory - locked in-equality 

Ethnocentric curriculum - ignores ethnic diversity 

Assessment - assessment does not favour minorities. 

Access to opportunities - gifted and talented is mostly white-orientated. 

500

Define 'double standards' and make links to Gender difference. 

Activity that is seen by one group of people as a good thing and another a bad thing.

Sexual morality - Boys boast, girls stigmatised. 

500

Why do Postmodernists disagree with Bowles and Gintis's view of education preparing pupils to accept work? 

Society is fragmented and diversity that welcomes creativity and self-motivation, not following the requirements of Marxist society.